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Should have had her buy a cheap 1 TB external caddy at Amazon for $50. Makes much more sense than ruining a perfectly good laptop (and paying for the privilege)
by UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
Should have had her buy a cheap 1 TB external caddy at Amazon for $50. Makes much more sense than ruining a perfectly good laptop (and paying for the privilege).
- mhurron 14y agoThis is hilarious. "Just buy this other thing and other thing that needs more power and you have to plug in externally and add a a pound or two to your laptop bag instead of getting the internal part that does exactly what you need because I think you 'ruined' your purchase." I just replaced the HDD in my MacBook with ANOTHER HDD. Did I just ruin your day?
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoShe doesn't need to carry all of her pictures around 24/7. Plus two pounds is a very unrealistic estimate, closer to 0.5 pounds. Your laptop is ruined because essentially you've chosen to replace one of the largest performance improvements since I've been using computers with more capacity which is light, cheap, and easily obtainable externally. It is like intentionally replacing your laptop with one from five years ago just because that offered more capacity, it is crazy...
- DanBC 14y agoYou need an external[1] as well as the internal; so you may as well get a cheap huge external (where capacity is important) and a fast internal (where speed is noticeable).
- mhurron 14y ago> You need an external No you don't, there are backup options that are not external drives. You do however have to carry around extra hardware if your data has to be on it because you picked a smaller, more expensive internal. The performance improvements to a SSD are just not needed by everyone.